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■ Lighthouse Academy, an Akron charter school that has been ordered to close by the end of the school year for poor academic performance, is a nonprofit entity. The headline on an article Sunday about Lighthouse was incorrect. An editor erred.

Today was the filing deadline for write-in candidates for the November 8 general election. Six write-in candidates hope to compete with the two candidates who will be on the ballot for three seats. None of the write-ins, however, is named Amy Reeves Grom, who missed the ballot by just 13 valid signatures. Because she filed as a regular candidate, she was prohibited by Ohio law to try again for the same election as a write-in. Grom says she plans on appealing the invalidation of her signatures.

If her appeal is unsuccessful, at least one of the following six names will be on the Akron School Board in January.

The Timken Co. will move a 6,000-square-foot lab and three employees from Jackson Township to the engineering research building now taking shape on the University of Akron campus.

UA and Timken announced Thursday that university faculty and students would take over the responsibility of surface engineering research for a company product line under the direction of a three-member Timken research team.

The Ohio Department of Education has released its list of charter schools that must close at the end of the school year or are at risk for closure next year if they don't improve their report cards.

Three schools are slated for closure based on this year's report card, which was released Wednesday, including Lighthouse Community & Professional Development Academy. I wrote a story in 2010 about the the principal being fired and concerns expressed by the school's state-authorized sponsor, the Richland Academy of the Arts.

I know, I know, I'm supposed to be crunching numbers from the report cards, which will officially be released tomorrow at 10 a.m. My story on some results of the Akron report card is on www.ohio.com.

But hey, during a Google News break I found this interesting article on Gamasutra by Erin Robinson, a former neuroscientist turned video game developer about studies that explore the effect of gaming on the brain. For example, did you know that anterograde amnesiacs, who cannot form new memories because of brain damage, can learn to play Tetris and get better at it?

Amy Reeves Grom, who is running for a second 4-year term, failed to turn in enough valid signatures to appear on the November ballot, according to the Summit County Board of Elections, which certified candidates this morning.

Kent State student Ashley Mowen of Rootstown received a $1,000 Don Schmidt Scholarship from the Ohio Parks and Recreation Association Foundation. She is a major in recreation, parks and tourism management and is a customer service rep at the KSU Adventure Center. She was one of three scholarship winners statewide.

I spent the first part of August in Philadelphia as the grateful recipient of a scholarship to attend the Penn Neuroscience Boot Camp at the University of Pennsylvania. The intensive 10-day institute is sponsored by the Center for Neuroscience & Society. Here's the center's description of what the Boot Camp is all about:

I learned a great deal from the excellent lecturers (who both know their stuff and know how to teach it) . I also appreciated the contributions from my 30 or so fellow Boot Camp recruits, who included lawyers, philosphers, sociologists, business professors, science reporters and authors, a career U.S. foreign service officer, an Emmy-award winning television producer, a mental health advocate, a nonprofit founder, a consultant specializing in life sciences, and an assistant pastor who also is a Georgetown professor. I'm sure I'm leaving someone out. It was quite a diverse group.

The University of Akron and Kent State could set different tuition levels for different programs and possibly make purchases of up to $1 million without seeking bids in a new plan to be unveiled today by Jim Petro, chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents.

COLUMBUS: Ohio University, set in an Appalachian town known for its rowdy Halloween bashes, has been named the nation’s No. 1 party school, pushing the University of Georgia down a slot in the 2011 Princeton Review survey released Monday.